Any tips for searching/applying for a junior corporate attorney position? All of the corporate positions I come across want substantial corporate experience. Thank you.

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Are you already a corporate associate and looking to lateral? If not, it’s pretty tough at least in any AM200. Not saying it’s not possible, but most bigger firms are only going to hire first year associates out of law school. Second and third years maybe laterals as well.

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Thank you for your response! I have a year of transactional work- commercial real estate and some corporate work. My other legal experience is a clerkship and commercial litigation.

Following, as there doesn't seem to be to many opportunities for corporate with less than 5 years of experience, but perhaps I'm just not looking at the right resources

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